Month: April 2017

San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge William Orrick yesterday issued an injunction forbidding the federal government from withholding federal money from ‘sanctuary cities’. Sanctuary cities refuse to give information or assist federal law enforcement in any way from carrying out the nation’s immigration laws, even in cases where federal officials are trying to arrest those who have previously been convicted of felonies and deported numerous times.

It goes without saying that these cities are defying federal law…you know those pesky things that everyone elects members of Congress to debate and pass if a majority agrees. But these elitist cities think they know better and so they simply say that will defy the law. And now we have a federal judge that says not only can they defy federal law but the federal government can’t stop giving them money just because they do.

Can someone please explain to Thinking Man in what alternate universe that logically makes sense?

Acording to the chief of a local tribe, three Islamic State militants setting up an ambush in a bitterly contested area of northern Iraq were killed by a herd of stampeding boars.

Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe told The Times of London the militants were hiding on the edge of a field about 50 miles southwest of Kirkuk waiting to ambush Iraqi soldiers, when the boars trampled them Sunday. Five other militants were injured, al-Assi said.

As strict Muslims I bet they never thought they would be done in by too much pork.

The Huffington Post, the liberal magazine which has wide circulation in those political circles, last week published an article from a South African blogger entitled “Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?” In the article, Shelly Garland argues that white men should not be allowed to vote and only then could the ills in society be changed and justice prevail. At first, Thinking Man thought it must be some joke to catch headlines but reading further the author doesn’t shrink from the scandalous headlines. Continue reading “Hypocrisy in Media–But Does Anyone Doubt That Anymore?”

So was the recent retaliatory US missile strike on a Syrian airbase launched before there was evidence that it actually was the Syrian government that was the one that actually used chemical weapons?

Syria and their allies Iran and Russia say so. On Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavros joined Iran and Syria in calling for an independent investigation and those opposed to the call “don’t have a clear conscience,” Lavrov said.

Of course last week, Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that demanded the Syrian government cooperate with an independent inquiry into the suspected sarin-gas attack that killed dozens of people.

One can hardly miss the news reports over recent months of speakers on college campuses being shut down by protests, in several cases violent protests. At the University of California-Berkeley, a professor who disagreed with the speaker but who felt the speaker should be allowed to speak was bloodied in the process. Just this year, there are several institutions of higher learning that cancelled controversial speakers because of protests who desired to shut down any opposing speech. Many, such as Berkeley, once promoted freedom of speech for even the most radical of ideas.

The craziness at America’s higher education institutions continues to amaze….

A student group at Duquesne University fears that a Chick-fil-A will endanger their ‘safe spaces’ and is asking the University to ban them from campus. The fear of the chicken sandwich is apparently real.

After reports that former UN Ambassador and National Security chief Susan Rice submitted a number of special requests to go around procedures to keep secret the names of US citizens that intelligence agencies had inadvertently spied upon (see my earlier blog post from Tuesday, April 11), the House Intelligence Committee is formally looking into the matter and questioning if Rice used her government position for political purposes since most of the names she requested were Trump campaign officials.

And finally, President Trump yesterday signed a bill that would allow states to spend federal grants the way that they wish, and overturned an Obama-era mandate that they not be able to restrict those government funds from going to Planned Parenthood. The measure does not change funding but lifts the restrictions the federal government had previously placed on the states.